2008 Woodie Awards
Lawrence professors move on and out
Sarah Buckley
Issue date: 4/15/05 Section: News
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Each year, it is interesting to watch the campus dynamic change as seniors who have been around for years, seniors we have grown to love, prepare to graduate and make room for new freshmen to enter the Lawrence community the following year. Rarely, however, do students consider that the professors at our school often go through a similar ritual at the end of the year. This year in particular, Lawrence students and faculty must say goodbye to a number of professors who make up an important part of the Lawrence community. I recently had the chance to talk with a some of these outgoing professors.
Professor Catherine Hollis, after teaching English at Lawrence for the past four years, recently decided to move back home to Oakland, Calif. Although she says she will miss the Midwest, Hollis is looking forward to returning to a climate that "feels more like home," surrounded by mountains and near the ocean - I guess the Fox River just can't compare. Since she is leaving after her fourth year of teaching here, Hollis says that she feels as though she is graduating with the freshmen she began teaching her first year at Lawrence.
Throughout her Lawrence career, Hollis has specialized in teaching modernist fiction, the works of authors like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Hollis insists that being in the classroom with her students has been "absolutely the best part" of her Lawrence experience.
This upcoming fall she will begin teaching a Bloomsbury course at Berkeley and is contemplating the idea of eventually teaching English at private high schools in her area. As far as the summer goes, however, Hollis is especially looking forward to spending some quality time in the sun and practicing her surfing skills. She apologizes to all the students who were signed up to take her Bloomsbury course at the London Centre next fall, and assures them that they will have a wonderful time nonetheless.
Another English professor who Lawrence will be losing next year is Professor Gina Bloom, who was on temporary leave this year working at the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research in the Humanities. She has recently completed the manuscript for her new book, "Choreographing Voice: Agency and the Staging of Gender in Early Modern England" and has also had the opportunity to organize a seminar on children in early modern literature for the Shakespeare Association of America Conference.
Professor Catherine Hollis, after teaching English at Lawrence for the past four years, recently decided to move back home to Oakland, Calif. Although she says she will miss the Midwest, Hollis is looking forward to returning to a climate that "feels more like home," surrounded by mountains and near the ocean - I guess the Fox River just can't compare. Since she is leaving after her fourth year of teaching here, Hollis says that she feels as though she is graduating with the freshmen she began teaching her first year at Lawrence.
Throughout her Lawrence career, Hollis has specialized in teaching modernist fiction, the works of authors like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Hollis insists that being in the classroom with her students has been "absolutely the best part" of her Lawrence experience.
This upcoming fall she will begin teaching a Bloomsbury course at Berkeley and is contemplating the idea of eventually teaching English at private high schools in her area. As far as the summer goes, however, Hollis is especially looking forward to spending some quality time in the sun and practicing her surfing skills. She apologizes to all the students who were signed up to take her Bloomsbury course at the London Centre next fall, and assures them that they will have a wonderful time nonetheless.
Another English professor who Lawrence will be losing next year is Professor Gina Bloom, who was on temporary leave this year working at the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research in the Humanities. She has recently completed the manuscript for her new book, "Choreographing Voice: Agency and the Staging of Gender in Early Modern England" and has also had the opportunity to organize a seminar on children in early modern literature for the Shakespeare Association of America Conference.